by Halliwell Hannah
Big blockbusters and disaster films are back big-time at the box office. We've already had Twister, Volcano, Dante's Peak, Daylight and of course, Titanic. How will local television meet the challenge? By dragging out big blockbusters and disaster films from the 1970s, that's how.
Channel 10 looks as if they are priming the Saturday night movie slot for blockbusters, and have already screened the WW2 epic Midway (30/5).
Next Saturday (6/6) comes the original Airport (1970), and one wonders if The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering
Inferno (1974) and Earthquake (1974) are far behind.
With Deep Impact making a deep impact at the U.S. box office, it remains to be seen if any channel will dust off Meteor (1979), the Sean Connery movie flop with a similar
comet-threatening-Earth premise.
And wouldn't it be timely if SBS unleashed the original 1950s
Godzilla again?
Photo: Morgan Freeman stars as President Beck in Deep Impact.
by Halliwell Hannah
